European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine buyers and Sellers come from Aster away As so Miles to attend the chinese capital s Premier horse Market horse trading in Beijing by Jim Abrams associated press a dust held Northeast of Bei ing i transformed a dozen limes a month into Iri chinese capital s Premier horse run ret. Wjt wily traders dealing in big Money Tor the animals that arc essential to inc chinese farm Community. Buyers and seller come from As Lar As 60 Miles away of the Roadside Market heir on the 3rd. 5lh, 81h and 10lh Day of the 10-Day lunar Calendar Cycle most an we on Straw Laden wagons pulled by Ifie horses to be sold on an average Day about 20 horses Are traded Lor prices ranging irom about so to $350, a hefty sum in China where he annual per capita income among ii c 600 million residents of Rural areas is about $108 same want 1o bade in their uld horses Lor younger animals. Others sell Lor Money to buy i actors and even Cas says wan a. A a Turkel administrator some horses broken Dom a by years of pulling plot s and hauling Rickely cans overloaded  produce and goods made in local Lac Orie. Are heading Lor the local Butcher. Most of the traders Are pros there a make a Goc a Deal Vang Chengchun. The  in Man who gets o 5 percent Cut of every dual Bays tuders will buy an horses Tor about $270 appear and Lake them to a Distant Village Selling ilium for about �320 each people Are getting Rich by trading in horses yarn says some have Pmj Tho  of i2,700-a year households the chum a  of 3 Muir for of he say a one your a ruin ."1 i Vink clo of  for i  patches on its skin common to Many of the horses their wan said he might be $240. Horses and mules being considered for Sale arc marched up and Down the Field to show they Aren l lame. The irad efs Hen gainer in mile Knols to Raj Seuss Price. Wan says the five or six overseers of for advice but Don t interfere Wilh Price setting they also mediate occasional disputes when one party brings a horse Bach claiming he was cheated in the deat. The Market has been in by Ness since the Talo 1970s, when he government began allowing More private Enterprise and other reforms which have signify Mcanlly improved life in the Countryside. Many of the traders though have been dealing in horses for decades we earned about horses when we were still wrapped in our baby blankets says wan who is 62. He says that by looking at Ric tee try arid other Paris of the horse. We a Tell How olo they arc what kind of grass they at and even what province i Heyborne irom about a third of Rural households around Beijing own horses which is evidence that the horse in China s most important beast of Burden a d Means of trans poit. Horses Are now banned from main Beijing thoroughfares during the Day but they Are s common sight in the suburbs hauling precarious toads of Cable Igic and of her produce to Market. Hordes arc in great demand in most Rural areas because of the Boom in Privalo transport operations apr Hotoi Blacksmith yanks an old Iron shoe at the horse trading Matet on the outskirts of Beijing. Bui Vvan says the horse is gradually losing out la Nio Boru de vehicles in the Eta ing area ,13 a Arancis become More a Luent in is an the trip inc or Al have fall fun go percent in the past three years and horse trading lie says May be m Lor a rough Luttum sunday. May 17. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 13